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| 1688 |
| | A son (the future 'Old Pretender') is born to James II, giving Britain a Catholic heir to the throne | |
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| 1688 |
| | English grandees invite William III of Orange and his wife Mary, daughter of James II, to claim the British throne | |
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| 1688 |
| | William III of Orange lands with an army at Torbay and marches to London with almost no opposition from supporters of James II | |
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| 1689 |
| | Parliament in Westminster makes the restrictive Bill of Rights the condition on which William III and Mary II are crowned | |
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| 1689 |
| | James II, landing in Ireland, is acclaimed as king in Dublin by enthusiastic Irish Catholics | |
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| 1689 |
| | A Grand Alliance against France is formed by almost all the other powers in Europe | |
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| 1689 |
| | The 17-year-old Peter the Great becomes co-tsar of Russia with his half-brother Ivan V | |
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| c. 1690 |
| | France by now has six fortified trading settlements around the coast of India, of which Pondicherry is the most important | |
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| 1690 |
| | The Church of Scotland finally wins recognition as an independent Presbyterian body | |
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| 1690 |
| | John Strong, landing on some remote Atlantic islands, names them after Viscount Falkland, treasurer of the British navy | |
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